I just burned a CD yesterday using Windows Media Player (Windows XP), now I'm trying to burn a CD and the songs have "Ready To Burn" beside them, however when I click "Start Burn", it starts, then immediatley stops and doesn't burn anything. Is there something configured incorrectly? I know the problem does not lie in my PC... What needs to be done? Thanks for your help. :-)
2006-12-26 05:22:29 · 4 answers · asked by cherripye99 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I am using a CD-R, and it is completly blank: Memorex brand.
2006-12-26 05:23:24 · update #1
Well, there are a few things that could be wrong, so I'm going to start with the assumption that would make it easiest to be fixed.
It could be a problem with the track you are trying to burn. Whenever you add songs to be burnt in Windows Media Player (WMP) it will say "Ready to Burn" but this is actually not always true. 90% of the time, after you click burn, it will convert the sound file and then burn it. My first guess as to why you have problems is that there is a problem with the format of the file you are trying to burn. If this is the case you will need to find out how to burn that file type. (I don't know how YAHOO questions works and if you can post a follow up, otherwise I can help you again) There is an easy way for us to find out if this is the issue. You can attempt to burn the same CD you said you burned yesterday. If that works we know that no problem arose in WMP but it was the sound file itself. Another way to test is to remove that first track and see if it will convert all the other files (This test will only prove it's the song if it does work. If it doesn't work you will still have to do the test I said before burning the other CD).
Should it be the case that the sound file is not working with WMP you have a few options. The easiest would be that you can just try to do without burning that song, other than that you can try to download a file converter yourself. You would want it to convert to this file format for WMP to work for sure. 128Kbps MP3 CBR. Or as close to that as you can find.
Good luck!
2006-12-26 05:32:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a quirk on some PC's where you burn a disk, eject it, and the burner gets confused and thinks its already done the burn.
You need to restart the 'puter and it should burn fine... I know that sounds retarded... and it is... but I encountered this bug as a project coordinator for Sony, and to my knowledge no patch was ever created to fix this flaw... Microsoft just kind of blew it off (like so many of our complaints...)
Sorry,
-dh
2006-12-26 13:26:08 · answer #2 · answered by delicateharmony 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to my computer, right click on the cdrw drive click on properties, go to recording, at the bottom where it says fastest now dorm don the menu and put it on a slower speed say 12x or 16x and try that.
2006-12-26 13:33:08 · answer #3 · answered by Roadman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you know that problem does'nt lie in ur pc then simply change the cd
2006-12-26 13:34:43 · answer #4 · answered by GoLd E 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋